4.1% —
Lower than 72% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 4.3%
- 2021: 4.1%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Sunbury (Western Metropolitan) · State Electorate
Transport & Vehicles in Sunbury (Western Metropolitan)
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Reliance on cars is a way of life in Sunbury, where only 4.1% of homes have no motor vehicle. While public transport infrastructure is plentiful, very few people actually use it for their daily commute.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Cars are essential here, with 41.2% of homes owning two vehicles and 22.5% having three or more. Only 4.1% of households get by without a car, a figure well below the national rate of 7.4%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Sunbury (Western Metropolitan), the largest group is 2 vehicles at 41%, followed by 1 vehicle (32%) and 3 vehicles (14%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home has surged to 21.5% since 2016, which helps explain why public transport use for work fell to just 2%. Most people still drive, with 56.1% of workers commuting as the driver.
21.5% —
Higher than 72% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 3.2%
- 2021: 21.5%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
2.0% —
Lower than 57% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 5.6%
- 2021: 2.0%
Share of employed people who got to work by train, bus, ferry or tram/light rail as their only method of travel on census day.
Public transport access
Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.
Public transport access is high, with 405 stops and a number of stops per 1,000 people that is well above the Victorian figure. Weekly departures are also a little above the state average, though the network is almost entirely buses.
405
Higher than 80% of state electorate areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
6.11
Higher than 80% of state electorate areas.
Public-transport stops per 1,000 residents — a measure of how densely an area is served (GTFS stops; population from the 2021 Census).
1,460.3
Higher than 68% of state electorate areas.
Scheduled weekly public-transport departures from stops in the area, per 1,000 residents — how often transit actually runs, not just whether a stop exists (GTFS schedules for a representative week; population from the 2021 Census).
29
Higher than 57% of state electorate areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
- Public transport timetables (GTFS) — State & territory transport agencies, 2026 (CC BY 4.0 (WA: custom PTA licence)).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Sunbury (Western Metropolitan) [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED27907/sunbury/topic/transport